Philadelphia cheese is an expensive curd cheese that not everyone can afford to buy. However, its counterpart can be prepared at home close to industrial conditions. Let's try?
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Philadelphia cheese belongs to the category of cream cheese, which is made on the basis of cottage cheese. Although there are recipes from milk, sour cream, kefir, etc. In industrial production, real Philadelphia cheese is made from skim milk, whey, concentrated whey protein, cheese culture, salt, stabilizers, palmitate (vitamin A) and sorbic acid. At home, the product is prepared much easier and from very affordable products. You only need to have on hand cottage cheese, eggs, lemon, salt and sugar. From these products, you can get an excellent analogue of an expensive cheese close to the original, which is made in an industrial environment.
The result is a homemade cheese according to this recipe, very delicate, with a piquant sourness and sweetish taste. This version of homemade cream cheese is a great alternative to a store-bought product and a great base for many dishes and desserts. Cheesecake is baked on its basis, rolls and sushi are twisted, added to salads or simply consumed on its own, spread on a baguette or cookies. Well, now let's go directly to the recipe itself and prepare a delicious cheese. Observing the entire sequence of actions, you can literally enjoy a homemade delicate product in 10 minutes.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 67 kcal.
- Servings - 300-350 g
- Cooking time - 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 300 g
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Sugar - 0.5 tsp
Step-by-step preparation of Philadelphia cheese from cottage cheese:
1. Drive the egg into a deep bowl or any convenient container, take a mixer and whisk.
2. Whisk the eggs at high speed until fluffy, bulky and lemon-colored.
3. Add salt and sugar to the egg mass and beat again.
4. Wash the lemon and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut in half and squeeze the juice from one half into the egg mixture. It is better to do this through a fine iron strainer or gauze so that the bones do not fall.
5. Pour the egg mass into a large deep bowl.
6. Add cottage cheese to it.
7. Blend the food with a blender so that the curd acquires a uniform smooth structure. The cheese should have a smooth texture. If you do not have a blender, then grind the cottage cheese several times through a fine sieve or twist through a meat grinder to break up all the grain and grains. Then add it to the egg mass and mix with a mixer.
Send the finished cheese to the refrigerator to cool, after which you can start your meal. If you plan to use it for cooking, then you do not need to refrigerate it.
See also the video recipe on how to make Philadelphia cheese.
